 | 1867 - 796 pages
...Bradlaugh are sacrificed. We in Oxford, brought up amidst beauty and sweetness, have not failed to seize the truth that beauty and sweetness are essential characters of a complete human perfection. When 1 insist on this truth, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this... | |
 | 1894 - 854 pages
...beliefs, and unpopular names and impossible loyalties ! " Oxford, as lie says elsewhere,1 liad taught the truth that " beauty and sweetness are essential characters of a complete human perfection." Bad philosophies, another critic (I think Professor Flint) has said, when they die, go to Oxford. Arnold... | |
 | 1867
...Bradlaugb. are sacrificed. We in Oxford, brought up amidst beauty and sweetness, have not failed to seize the truth that beauty and sweetness are essential characters of a complete human perfection. When I insist on this truth, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 802 pages
...Bradlaugh are sacrificed. We in Oxford, brought up amidst beauty and sweetness, have not failed to seize the truth that beauty and sweetness are essential characters of a complete human perfection. When I insist on this truth, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 354 pages
...Beales and Mr. Bradlaugh are sacrificed. Oxford, the Oxford of the past, has many faults ; and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation,...essential characters of a complete human perfection. When I insist on this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 350 pages
...Beales and Mr. Bradlaugh are sacrificed. Oxford, the Oxford of the past, has many faults ; and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation,...essential characters of a complete human perfection. When I insist on this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 352 pages
...saculi. — Mixed Essays. THE OXFORD MOVEMENT. OXFORD, the Oxford of the past, has many faults ; and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation,...essential characters of a complete human perfection. When I insist on this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 420 pages
...Beales and Mr. Bradlaugh are sacrificed. Oxford, the Oxford of the past, has many faults ; and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation,...essential characters of a complete human perfection. When I insist on this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 348 pages
...Beales and Mr. Bradlaugh are sacrificed. Oxford, the Oxford of the past, has many faults : and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation,...essential characters of a complete human perfection. When I insist on this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 304 pages
...unexampled splendor. — " Essays in Criticism." Oxford, the Oxford of the past, has many faults, and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation,...want of hold upon the modern world. Yet we in Oxford. . . . have not failed to seize one truth — the truth that beauty and sweetness are essential characters... | |
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Oxford, the Oxford of the past, has many faults; and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation, in want of hold upon the modern world. Yet we in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness of that beautiful place, have not failed to... 
